I want to say something about the bag theory of fiction, or however that essay is called, by le guinn, and i wrote a bunch of stuff about it and i just need to put it into something coherent.

In Activitypub you lose your account when your instance dies or your admin goes crazy with power. Nostr may or may not be the solution, but it is better than Activitypub in that regard.

Sigh.

> Nicholas Cage imprisoned inside a medieval gibbet-cage hanging from an oak tree XF IQ4, f/1.4, ISO 200, 1/160s, 8K, RAW, unedited, symmetrical balance, in-frame

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> When Charlie Kirk was assassinated last month it took erstwhile > friends of his a matter of days to start speculating that the Jews > or Israel killed him. These podcasters and others dishonored his > memory by claiming that the person caught by the FBI for carrying > out the shooting could not have done it, or could not have acted > alone. Soon a full-on twenty-first-century stampede was in > operation. When the Israeli prime minister issued a video saying > that of course Israel had nothing to do with the murder of one of > its most prominent American conservative supporters, those who > spread the libel doubled down. “I never have to admit not to have > killed someone I haven’t killed,” they trilled. Because of course if > an Israeli prime minister did not make a statement on this then the > Jews could be accused, and if he did deny it then the Jews could be > accused.

Douglas Murray: The War Israel Won—and the One the West Is Losing

Two years after October 7, Israel has defeated its enemies. The West is still surrendering to them.

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The Case Against Generative AI

Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've...

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Finished reading FLUX by Stephen Baxter of the Xeelee cycle. The main premise was very imaginative and interesting, but also unbelievable, so my suspension of disbelief muscles need a long rest. It was also too long for my taste, but I still liked it enough to finish it. #books #fiction #flux #sciencefiction #scifi #stephenbaxter #suspensionofdisbelief #xeelee #xeeleecycle